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Ring has now raised $100M for video doorbells

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Re: Ring has now raised $100M for video doorbells

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Post by Osiris30 »

Thats a lot of sales - 50k/month. There are so many competitors here - NetAtmo (1), August, and several others (3). This is isn't like investing in GoPro 5 years ago,... Isn't this more like Cisco investing in Flip camera in 2009 (4) ??

(1) https://www.netatmo.com/en-US/product/presence (2) http://www.engadget.com/2015/10/14/august-unveils-a-homekit-...) (3) http://www.mysmahome.com/FEATURE/5344/7-must-see-smart-video... (4) https://gigaom.com/2011/04/12/stick-a-fork-in-flip-smartphon...

Re: Ring has now raised $100M for video doorbells

#43

Post by andrewflnr »

Hopefully they use the money to fix nonsense like this: https://www.pentestpartners.com/blog/steal-your-wi-fi-key-fr...

An attacker at your door has physical access to your Ring device, which can be leveraged into access to your wifi network (unless they fixed this already).

Re: Ring has now raised $100M for video doorbells

#44

Post by michaelbuckbee »

Osiris30 wrote: post #41

Thats a lot of sales - 50k/month. There are so many competitors here - NetAtmo (1), August, and several others (3). This is isn't like investing in GoPro 5 years ago,... Isn't this more like Cisco investing in Flip camera in 2009 (4) ?? (1) https://www.netatmo.com/en-US/product/presence (2) http://www.engadget.com/2015/10/14/august-unveils-a-homekit-... ) (3) http://www.mysmahome.com/FEATURE/5344/7-must-see-smart-vid…

Looking at their product line and the statements they're making - I'm thinking they are heading towards competing with hOme security services. That move would push them into a much higher margin business and make this make more sense.

Re: Ring has now raised $100M for video doorbells

#45

Post by LogicX »

andrewflnr wrote: post #43

Hopefully they use the money to fix nonsense like this: https://www.pentestpartners.com/blog/steal-your-wi-fi-key-fr... An attacker at your door has physical access to your Ring device, which can be leveraged into access to your wifi network (unless they fixed this already).

Your link indicates at the bottom that they already fixed this issue.

Re: Ring has now raised $100M for video doorbells

#46

Post by deepnet »

brbsix wrote: post #8
DyslexicAtheist wrote: post #5

"Instead of getting a notification that there was motion at the front door and getting a link to the video, the notification might let the homeowner know that the homeowner’s child was at the door, signalling that little Aidan had made it home from school." lot of products are being sold in the name of protecting your kids because this is a common reasoning appealing to parents. Not sure how comfortable I'd be growin…

It's a sad fact of life that people only accept tyranny from their government after first having accepted tyranny from their parents as children.

"Give me the child till the age of seven and I will show you the man."

Ignatius of Loyola

Re: Ring has now raised $100M for video doorbells

#47

Post by yardie »

shostack wrote: post #36

Are there any companies out there making smart doorway camera and such like this that just work off your home wifi network, and can stream directly to your phone or store to local media (or cloud media like Gdrive, Dropbox, etc.) without requiring a subscription? I really don't want that data hitting some random company's server (setting aside issues with trusting other cloud storage providers), and I just don't feel…

You can already do this with a Synology, QNAP, G-drive, etc. and an IP streaming camera. Most of them have a hybrid cloud service where you get a URL to your NAS and can download files, run services remotely (torrent for example), or stream camera footage.

And its been like this for years. Ring seems a little more polished. But I'd prefer the privacy of keeping that information on premise.

Re: Ring has now raised $100M for video doorbells

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Post by ec109685 »

shostack wrote: post #36

Are there any companies out there making smart doorway camera and such like this that just work off your home wifi network, and can stream directly to your phone or store to local media (or cloud media like Gdrive, Dropbox, etc.) without requiring a subscription? I really don't want that data hitting some random company's server (setting aside issues with trusting other cloud storage providers), and I just don't feel…

Not doorbell, but nest doesn't charge for streaming from their cameras.

Re: Ring has now raised $100M for video doorbells

#49

Post by ec109685 »

dba7dba wrote: post #26
joenathan wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It goes up to the cloud and then back down to you.

All this cloud nonsense... One day someone will come up with an appliance type device that one can keep at home to act as the personal cloud environment. One day...

A NAS?

Re: Ring has now raised $100M for video doorbells

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Post by andrewflnr »

LogicX wrote: post #45
andrewflnr wrote: post #43

Hopefully they use the money to fix nonsense like this: https://www.pentestpartners.com/blog/steal-your-wi-fi-key-fr... An attacker at your door has physical access to your Ring device, which can be leveraged into access to your wifi network (unless they fixed this already).

Your link indicates at the bottom that they already fixed this issue.

Ah, whoops. When I first found the article for a paper I was writing, I was just skimming for details of the attack.
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